My friend Mike, said to me the other day, “All that time you spend on the Internet, aren’t you afraid of getting your identity stolen or something?”
Well . . . no. I think you have a greater chance of getting your I.D. stolen offline than online, but even if there was a correlation between the amount of time one spent online and getting your identity stolen, I can’t imagine an identity thief wanting mine. Afterall, steal my identity and you get my bad credit to go with it. In fact, when I think about it . . . okay, no, but I have been thinking about what I should do about my finances. I’ve been scraping by these last few months, hoping things will turn around on their own, but giving the nosedive the economy has taken of late, that doesn’t seem likely. Bankruptcy is the option of last resort and I’m not quite there yet but, given that the debt consolidation loan I took out last spring didn’t cover all of my debts and the company recently issue me a letter saying that they are closing my account and won’t issue me anymore credit to consolidate any more of my debt, it looks like I may be screwed unless I win the lottery or something. That’s a big part of the reason why Asterius Press isn’t doing any print media projects right now (the real cost of print isn’t in the printing — it’s in distribution and promotion. If a zine or a chapbook could sell and ship itself that would be another matter. As it is, I’d just as soon burn a chapbook as publish one), and since I did manage to pay my webhosting through 2011, and I have plenty of space for Web projects, I’m putting all my eggs in that basket for now. In fact, I have a new ezine devoted solely to short fiction in the works for Summer 2009. I’ve got my fingers crossed.
